Christmas Crisis Averted
A crisis? Not really, but some disappointment definitely was prevented. Every year since my son's first Christmas in 2001 I have purchased my son a Hess Truck, only this year for what I think is the fourth time it is not a truck but a race car. Pretty much since October every illness my kids have gotten I have also picked up in some way shape or form, easily this is a record for cold and flu for me. For roughly a week and a half since October 20th or so I have been healthy, it is really quite frustrating. To make a long story short, I kept putting off stopping in at a Hess station to buy this years Hess Toy Truck, err vehicle.
Finally today I decided was the day, I had intended to go and do this last week, but sinus pressure and a serious headache kept me from venturing out. I had this belief that these things rarely if ever sold out and I was wrong. I visited my normal stop and a sign on the door read that the Hess Toy Race Car was sold out. I asked inside if they knew of other stations that still had this years Hess toy. They said they had just sold out and that they believed all the stations were sold out. I knew of a small Hess station that I figured would not get the amount of traffic this station does. On my way I passed another Hess station that still had the signs up. I went inside and was informed they had sold out last week. My last chance was the small out of the way station I knew of, otherwise that meant I would pay double the price on Ebay and the gift would not arrive until the New Year. Checking the final station I was told they were sold out, but that a Hess station in Marysville still had some. I was out on lunch and if I was going to make the trip to Marysville it would be after work. The lady behind the counter then asked me how many I needed. I said one would be fine, but I usually purchased two as we kept one in the box. She sent the other guy in the back and he came back with two. I do not know what the story was with that, but I was thankful I found the one item that my son looks forward to each year.
In the future this will not be an item that I put off purchasing. If by chance Hess would stumble upon any of the numerous mentions I have given them over the years. I love the creativity of the various vehicles. But you guys have not done a tanker truck since 1990, I think a tanker truck once every 20 years is okay without you being repetitive. You have repeated some of your other themes during the past 20 years, for example I see numerous fire trucks. I think we are ready for a tanker truck of some type again.
